Montalto di Castro Nuclear Power Station

Nuclear power plant in Italy

1 January 1988

Owner(s)EnelOperator(s)EnelNuclear power station Reactor typeBWRPower generation Units cancelled2 x 982 MWNameplate capacity2,018 MWExternal linksCommonsRelated media on Commons

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The Montalto di Castro nuclear power station was a nuclear power plant at Montalto di Castro in Italy. Consisting of two BWR units each of 982 MWe, it was approaching completion in 1988 when the Italian government decided to close all nuclear plants as a result of the 1987 referendum. In February 1988 the two units were eighty percent complete, representing about a five billion dollars investment.^[1] It never operated.

Its area and some of the already built structures are now used by the fossil-fuel power station "Alessandro Volta", the biggest power station in Italy.

Reactor data

The nuclear power plant has two units:

Unit	Reactor type	Net capacity	Gross capacity	Start of construction	Mothballed
Montalto di Castro-1 ^[2]	BWR/6 (Mark III)^[3]^[4]	982 MW	1009 MW	1 July 1982	1 January 1988
Montalto di Castro-2 ^[5]	BWR/6 (Mark III)	982 MW	1009 MW	1 July 1982	1 July 1988

References

^ "Symposium: Nuclear Technology in Southern Africa" (PDF). CSIR. 21 June 1990. p. 262. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 April 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
^ "Nuclear Power Reactor Details - Montalto di Castro-1". International Atomic Energy Agency. 1982. Archived from the original on 11 September 2010. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
^ Reliability Data Collection and Use in Risk and Availability Assessment Proceedings of the 5th EuReDatA Conference, Heidelberg, Germany, April 9–11, 1986, page 663, "An extensive probabilistic safety study was performed for the Alto Lazio Nuclear Plant, a two-unit BWR/6 plant presently being constructed ..."
^ The Non-Nuclear Conversion of the Montalto BWR/6-Mark III Plant: A Technical and Economical Assessment of the Proposed Options
^ "Nuclear Power Reactor Details - Montalto di Castro-2". International Atomic Energy Agency. 1982. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 18 July 2022.